Before long, Mina truly fell silent. Jake followed the instructions, turning off the lights and lowering the air conditioning. Cautiously, he used his ability to probe inner voices to check Sister Mina's thoughts, but they were as still as a deep pool, with no emotional fluctuations whatsoever.
"True, why should I, a grown man, panic?" Jake took a deep breath, steadying his heartbeat.
Using the faint light from his phone, he groped his way onto the bed, lying with his back to Sister Mina.
The bed was a standard single-size bed, wider than those in student dormitories, with railings on both sides against the wall. It was spacious enough for two people, and Jake even left a gap between them.
